with respect to the role and status of cooperatives in harvesting, market supply and eventually the development and improvement of income and status level of farmers, the performance of such cooperatives have to be screened .and surveyed. the major aim of this article is the estimation of success and achievement level of such cooperatives as regard to marketing agricultural products, and diagno...

the main objective of this study, conducted as a survey research is an evaluation of the effects of agricultural productions cooperatives (apc) in hamedan province. at present, 1050 apcs are active in iran, of which 32 have been established in hamedan province. research population includes all farmers who are members of apc in hamedan province, i.e. 2253 farmers of whom 146 were selected throug...

Despite policy reforms and the integration of various linkages in rice production by Vietnamese government, small-scale farmers' (small farmers’) access to market is limited. A value chain link a powerful tool for improving small competitiveness. The benefits horizontal vertical coordination on farm household performance were investigated using dataset 160 farmers. Twenty-two stakeholders also ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...

The history of forest management in the southern United States has been a process of intensification and the pine forests of the Coastal Plain can be regarded as in the early stage of crop domestication. Silviculture research into tree improvement and other aspects of plantation establishment and management has been critical to the domestication process, which began in the early 1950s with the ...

Reframing the Attitude-Behavior Debate: The Case of Meat-Abstinence in Vegetarian Student Cooperatives

S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, primary out-of-hours (OOH) care is provided by large scale General Practitioner (GP) cooperatives. GP cooperatives can be contacted by patients living in the area surrounding the GP cooperative (catchment area) at hours when the patient's own general practice is closed. The frequency of primary OOH care use substantially differs between GP cooperative catchment ar...